BEHOLD, THE NEW CRESCENT VARSITY VICE CHANCELLOR

Prof. Ibraheem Gbajabiamila is the new Vice Chancellor of Crescent University, Abeokuta, the institution which prides itself as the university for academic and moral excellence.Having understudied his predecessor for close to four years, Prof. Gbajabiamila's appointment portrays him as a patient don who is at vantage position to now manage the university.

His first day in office revealed Prof. Gbajabiamila not only as a classic but as an excellent two-way communicator who possesses they key to people's heart. Having stated the Proprietor's mission and vision of breeding well nurtured products in character and learning ( and not training brilliant beasts), he conceded that the members of staff 'made it happen' for him to be on the seat, noting that there could not be any university without the staff.

At the session, he cross-ventilated ideas with members of staff on how to move forward from where his predecessor stopped. In his words " universities drive economies and we as private universities exist to add values". Prof. Gbajabiamila emphasised that value was what he had come to add to the noble institution founded by the former judge of the world court, His Excellence, Judge Bola Ajibola some nine years ago.

The Lagos-state born Prof. Gbajabiamila stated that 'since our students are our best form of recruiters' , the university in his tenure was committed to nurturing products of knowledge and character, stressing that one without the other was not desirable in our society.He said producing brilliant people without good moral conduct was a waste of efforts.

The son and great grandson of a teacher, Prof. Gbajabiamila said that his being a teacher also was not by accident and that the reason he had come to add value to Crescent University, Abeokuta was the same reason his grandfather started AnsarudDeen Society in his family compound in Isale-Eko, Lagos State in the 1930's.

By Idris Katib, with reports from Crescent University Television